AI do; AI don't
Want to use AI without an angry mob of artists with pitchforks and torches chasing you down? Do not worry, use my AI do’s and don'ts to keep yourself safe.
Do:
Quality checks
Do quality checks to make sure the generated image is what you want and the ai did not create something wrong. Ai can create hands with too many or too little fingers, smeared pieces of skin, and/or disproportions.
“girl running down an alley from spaghetti”
AI Image Generator (free, no sign-up, unlimited) (perchance.org)
The image I have from the prompt “girl running down an alley from spaghetti” her left hand has too many fingers and there is no spaghetti. Submit the prompt several times until you get what you are looking for.
Detailed prompts
Elaborate prompts give the ai more details to work with for their images. Say you input the prompt of a man holding a donut, not a lot to work with. Is he a short or tall man, his hair color, is it a long john or a circular donut, so on and so forth. A long prompt helps the ai build more of and create your exact scene.
Check the ai’s reference images
Ai takes reference images and then recreates them. Double check the ai’s sources to make sure that you use ethical ai sources. You may find yourself in the middle of a lawsuit if the ai pulls images that do not belong to you or the creator of the ai.
Draw attention to using ai
When you use ai make sure that you make that prominent for your viewers. Viewers will appreciate the perspective for the images and build a better relationship with them through your honesty.
Understand why you use ai/goals
Establish your goals with ai. This will remind you of your art’s focus and let your audience know why you use ai. Your audience will better understand your art process and grow closer to you as an artist.
Don’t:
Have over reliance
Do not rely too much on ai, your artistic skills can diminish. If most of your work comes from the ai then the audience is hearing the ai’s voice and not your own. Your audience is there to hear what you have to say, if they want to hear from an ai they would use it themselves.
Limit to one AI
If you limit yourself to one ai you miss out on the one made for you. Branch out your options, different ai have different outputs such image type and style. You may find an option that was not available before.
Say the ai’s art is your own
Artists never say someone else’s work is their own work.
“Good artists copy, great artists steal,”
take elements from others' works and incorporate it into your own style. Ai images work the same way, they take images and create new ones. When you take an ai image you did not create a new image, which means you stole it.
Have ai bias
Have an area of expertise that you enjoy doing yourself? Try it with ai, see what it can do and possibly find new ways of how it works. Ai is a tool in your artistic arsenal, try it out before you decide you hate it.
Give false promises
Willy’s Chocolate Experience, an ai generated in person experience, did not deliver the delicious delicacy of delights promised in their ai generated promotional material. Attendees expected a fantastic mix of Willy Wonka with ai, instead the experience was Willy Wonka living in a crack den. The irony of their situation was not ethical issues of ai, in fact that was a draw, instead it was the backlash of disappointed children and adult attendees.
Above: Promotional material for Willy’s Chocolate Experience
Below: Photo from Willy’s Chocolate Experience
Willy's Chocolate Experience - Wikipedia
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